A woman stands in the entryway to a stone and wooden shelter in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Other people are visible on the other side of the shelter. The shelter is partially completed, as building materials still remain on the roof.

A view of the interior stairwell of the Golden Valley County Courthouse in Beach, N.D. shows the reconstructed entryway composition. A boxlike wood-frame shelter had been placed on the front door for many years, but was later removed to restore...

22 Mandan Indian stories recorded, transcribed, and translated by Robert C. Hollow. The following stories are available: First Creator and Lone Man Argue; First Creator and Lone Man Make the Land; The Creation; The Origin of White Men; Old Man...

Men from a Civilian Conservation Corps crew pause for a photograph during the construction of a stone shelter built into a hillside at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. All of the men wear work clothes, except for a man at far right who wears a...

Francis E. Murphy takes a radiation reading with a Geiger counter in his Bismarck fallout shelter. On the shelves next to him, a telephone, 6 volt battery, and books are visible. Bunk beds stand behind him.

General Philippe Regis de Trobriand came to Fort Stevenson in 1867. His troops built the post, barely completing the necessary buildings before the extremely harsh and early winter began. Trobriand’s diary offers us a look at a wintertime diet...

A man sits at a table covered with jars of preserved vegetables while a woman stands and reads a label on canned food. Shelves of other canned items are visible next to her. A bed is visible in the background.

A fieldstone entrance gate and shelter constucted by the Civilian Conservation Corps stands on the grounds of the Double Ditch Indian Village site near Bismarck, N.D. The Missouri River flows in the background. A car is parked near the gate and...